Yury Luzhkov

Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov (21 September 1936-10 December 2019) was Mayor of Moscow from 6 June 1992 to 28 September 2010, succeeding Gavriil Popov and preceding Sergey Sobyanin. He was a United Russia member.

Biography
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 21 September 1936, and he worked as a scientific researcher before joining the CPSU in 1968. Luzhkov worked in the chemical industry until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after which he served as Mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. Luzhkov was a conservative Orthodox Christian who issued several bans on the Moscow Pride parade (which he saw as satanic), and he was friendly with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was also accused of corruption, bulldozing historic buildings, poorly handling traffic, and mishandling the city's smog problem during the 2010 wildfires, and President Dmitry Medvedev fired him in 2010. He died in 2019 at the age of 83.